Major League Baseball pitcher Clayton Kershaw has built a Hall of Fame career with the Los Angeles Dodgers, from when he broke into the big leagues in 2008 to when he announced his retirement in 2025.

The three-time Cy Young Award winner will go down as one of the best to ever take the mound, and he has had his wife, Ellen, by his side the entire way. The high school sweethearts first started dating in 2003, three years before the Dodgers drafted him in the first round of the 2006 MLB Draft. They married in 2010 and now share four children with a fifth on the way.

Though Clayton is the first MLB player in his family, he comes from a talented background. He is the great-nephew of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto (Tombaugh died in 1997, long before Pluto’s demotion to a

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